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Environmental Issues and Protection

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2012

    Amazing Houston Business Journal Scoop: Onion Article Probably Not True

    Hold on to your hats, take a seat, take a deep breath, do whatever it takes to absorb some shattering news: An article in The Onion is probably fake. This earth-shattering scoop is brought to you by the Houston Business Journal, with an article entitled "Houston PR Pro Contemplates The Onion's Frac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2012

    Cover Story: Houston's Noise Ordinance Has Bar and Club Owners Screaming

    Things have been quite noisy since Houston's new noise ordinance became law. In this week's cover story, Houston Press examined the effects of the citywide sound ordinance, which Houston City Council passed on October 10. While a Houston Police Department officer is confident that the noise ordin ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 29, 2012

    Shell Eco-Challenge Marathon

    Things have been quite noisy since Houston's new noise ordinance became law. In this week's cover story, Houston Press examined the effects of the citywide sound ordinance, which Houston City Council passed on October 10. While a Houston Police Department officer is confident that the noise ordin ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 3, 2011

    red, black and GREEN: a blues

    Things have been quite noisy since Houston's new noise ordinance became law. In this week's cover story, Houston Press examined the effects of the citywide sound ordinance, which Houston City Council passed on October 10. While a Houston Police Department officer is confident that the noise ordin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2011

    Houston: All That Pavement Makes Us Hotter, More Polluted

    NCARArrows mean bad news.​You used to hate Houston's ever-growing amount of pavement for increasing flooding and general ugliness. Now you can hate it for making you sweat and breathe bad air. A major new study of the Houston area says "the proliferation of strip malls, subdivisions, and othe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2011

    Fetuses In A Public Landfill: Not The Way It's Supposed To Happen

    Just no​We all know that the souls of aborted babies go to live with Jesus, but what of their earthly remains? Well, in Texas, they legally can't be disposed of in landfills -- which is exactly where the remains from two abortion clinics have been going, according to Texas Commission on Enviro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2011

    It's Not Easy Being Green: Houston Ranks Seventh in Energy-Efficient Buildings But Also in Ozone

    Hazy shade of summer: smog season is right around the corner!​No one would ever accuse Houston of being the most environmentally friendly city in the world. We have long commutes, stagnant atmospheric conditions during the hottest months of the year leading to increased ozone, and more than ou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2010

    TCEQ Gets Slammed: Feds Take Powers Away From Texas' Air-Pollution "Watchdog"

    TCEQ step aside, feds say​Is an agency a "watchdog" when it doesn't watch? Apparently the feds don't think so. In a bold move today, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it was taking over the job of issuing greenhouse-gas permits in Texas because the Texas Council on Environmental ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2010

    (No) Surprise: White Stallion Coal Plant Approved By Texas' Air Watchdog

    TCEQ says "Great!!" to controversial coal plant​Matagorda County elected officials didn't want it. Local citizens vigorously protested against it. Clean-air advocated spent gobs of time and money trying to fight it, warning that the proposed While Stallion coal-fired plant would cripple Houston's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2010

    White Stallion Coal Plant Opposition Plays The Death-Count Card

    White Stallion: The vote is coming soon​Several clean-air advocacy groups joined forces Tuesday in their continuing push to keep the proposed White Stallion coal plant from getting a permit. And this time, they brought out the big guns: fear and death.According to a new report released Tuesday in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2010

    EPA Gives Houston Big Grant To Boost Electric Cars And (Non-Electric) Bikes

    Dollars for clean-air initiatives​The Environmental Protection Agency has just announced it's giving a $423,000 grant to Houston to help the city boost its electric-car program.The city already has about two dozen charging stations downtown for the vehicles, and now can add more and also improve b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2010

    Game Time: Whaler Fan Fest -- Houston Oiler Fans May Know How I Feel

    Hartford Whalers: They live on as a dessert​"Somewhere along the line, we will see you in another place in another time. God bless all of you fans. Remember one thing, you may have lost the NHL, but you have not lost the memories." -- Chuck Kaiton, the voice of the Hartford Whalers after the Whal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2010

    Greg Abbott Sues Obama Administration Over Clean-Air Rules

    Dumb bureaucrats........​The Texas regulations on clean air, such as they are, have done a marvelous job for years, and we don't need the feds messing with our pristine environment, Texas attorney general Greg Abbott said today in a suit filed against the Obama administration.Texas' (notorious) Fl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2010

    Rep. Pete Olson, Standing Up Against Those Pesky Pollution Rules

    Texas can police its own air, thankyouverymuch.​Republican U.S. Congressman Pete Olson may not officially be the poster boy for the oil and gas industry, but one could argue that he's really bucking for the job. Last week, Olson of Sugar Land announced that he and a few other politicians on Capit ... More >>

  • News

    May 13, 2010

    Blowing Smoke

    Could Valero empty the coffers of Texas schools?

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2010

    Sierra Club Takes Its Oil-Spill Act To The Offshore Technology Conference

    Photograph courtesy US NavyA hunka, hunka burnin' Gulf​Dressed in a black business suit with a fake BP badge on the lapel, Sierra Club spokeswoman Donna Hoffman pretended to be a BP company exec giving a press conference after an oil spill."I want to reassure everyone that the oil spill, outside o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2010

    More Bad Benzene Numbers, And They're Probably Worse Than They Sound

    ​Oil and gas make the world go 'round, but refining the stuff can be deadly business. And according to a new report, the cancer-causing chemical known as benzene is on the rise.Earlier today, the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Environmental Integrity Project released a study showing that benzene ... More >>

  • News

    December 17, 2009

    A Quiet Hell: Game Time

    Flexible permits offer a loophole big enough to drive an oil tanker through.

  • Calendar

    November 12, 2009

    Trey McIntyre Project

    The former Houston Ballet choreographic associate shifts shape

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2009

    Houston's Waterways Are Filled With All Kinds Of Stuff They Shouldn't Be Filled With, Group Says

    ​Stay the hell away from Houston's waterways. Don't swim in them and for heaven's sake don't eat the fish.That was essentially the message this morning at a news conference held alongside the Houston Ship Channel, hosted by Environment Texas, an environmental advocacy group, which complied data fr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2009

    Southwest To Make Guinea Pigs Out Of Passengers, All In The Name Of The Environment

    ​We've heard of test pilots, but Southwest Airlines is offering the chance to be a test passenger.The airline is introducing a new "Green Plane," one where the materials used on a lot of things are lighter, resulting in a plane that uses less fuel to fly.If it works.One aircraft will be outfitted ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2009

    Houston Touts Its Clean-Air Credentials (Yes, Dammit, We Do Have Them)

    Photo courtesy GHCVB​Everyone knows that Houston is the smog-riddled energy capital of the world, so it was with a touch of irony that the annual Clean Air Through Energy Efficiency Conference awards were announced this afternoon in Houston.Attendees from across Texas and other states, munching on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 28, 2009

    HEAA Slings Some Loaded Questions at Four Mayoral Candidates

    photo by frankh​ The Houston Electric Auto Association recently cornered the four biggest mayoral candidates and grilled them on environmental issues, most (unsurprisingly) having to do with the unmitigated wonderfulness of the electric car. They were also quizzed on their support of proposed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2009

    Dow Chemical, Always Helping The Kids. By Polluting The Air

    If you worry about pollution -- especially in light on the EPA's latest study of the cancer risk posed by air pollution -- you might see that instead of threatening our lives, air pollution actually helps all of us, especially those of us who are most vulnerable, the kids.For purposes of illustr ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 12, 2009

    Texas Home & Garden Show

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  • Calendar

    January 24, 2008

    Green: The New Red, White and Blue

    Thomas Friedman looks at environmental patriotism

  • Calendar

    April 20, 2006

    What on Earth?

    Thomas Friedman looks at environmental patriotism

  • News

    October 6, 2005

    A Mighty Wind

    A mountain of garbage in northeast Houston is looking to get bigger. Neighbors cry foul.

  • News

    April 28, 2005

    First Places

    Houston Press staffers win awards

  • News

    January 13, 2005

    Draining the Swamp

    A scorched-earth management philosophy is sucking the life out of our region's wetlands

  • News

    August 19, 2004

    End of the Line

    An acquittal raises more questions about pollution prosecutors' tactics

  • News

    May 15, 2003

    Passive Aggressive

    A court slaps down the D.A.'s bid to broadly expand its antipollution powers

  • Best of Houston

    September 20, 2001

    Best Lost Monument

    Portland Cement Association Safety Trophy

  • News

    July 19, 2001

    Three-peat Heat

    Start your engines: The latest pollution pennant race is on

  • News

    December 28, 2000

    Fish Tales

    Rayburn's bass diminish as debates continue over pollution discharges

  • News

    September 28, 2000

    In the (O)Zone

    What's the fuss, TNRCC? We've got air to die for.

  • News

    June 29, 2000

    A Yenne for Your Thoughts

    Brazoria's D.A. raises privacy issues over DPS emissions tests

  • News

    April 6, 2000

    Reeling

    Bass kills and lesions on fish worry Sam Rayburn anglers. So does the state's plan to lower the lake's pollution standards.

  • News

    December 9, 1999

    Raw Deal

    Oysterman Joe Nelson says pollution is slowly killing Galveston Bay. But is anyone listening?

  • News

    September 30, 1999

    Adrift

    Has the fight over port expansion turned a bay watchdog group into a rubber duck?

  • Music

    April 1, 1999

    Wylie Coyote

    Has the fight over port expansion turned a bay watchdog group into a rubber duck?

  • News

    January 21, 1999

    Looking for Answers Down Below

    The city doesn't seem to care that a Houston developer's plans for high-density apartments and a supermarket rest atop abandoned oil fields and possible contamination

  • News

    August 27, 1998

    Wetlands Maul?

    The Sierra Club got paid off, but a developer's bizarre problems continue

  • News

    December 25, 1997

    Changing the Channel

    For years, homeowners, developers, environmentalists and the federal government have wrangled over a flood-control plan for Clear Creek. Now a compromise is in view -- but the creek's future is murkier than ever.

  • News

    December 5, 1996

    In The Rough

    In its quest for a Municipal golf course, Lake jackson learned a valuable lesson: Never buy land without checking it out first. Unfortunately, the lesson came six years too late.

  • News

    December 5, 1996

    The Insider

    In its quest for a Municipal golf course, Lake jackson learned a valuable lesson: Never buy land without checking it out first. Unfortunately, the lesson came six years too late.

  • News

    May 25, 1995

    From the Allens to today, Buffalo Bayou has helped define the city of Houston. Now, after decades of abuse, it may finally be making a comeback as an urban resource. If, that is, we don't blow our chance.

    In its quest for a Municipal golf course, Lake jackson learned a valuable lesson: Never buy land without checking it out first. Unfortunately, the lesson came six years too late.

  • News

    May 19, 1994

    Decades of Delay

    Lavaca's woes surfaced in the '70s, but the cleanup has yet to begin

  • News

    April 14, 1994

    Trashing Houston

    To a world worried about waste, Houston may offer an answer -- or at least a place for the garbage to go

  • News

    January 20, 1994

    The fight to save the Katy Prairie

    How many winters more will Arctic waterfowl make their 10,000-year-old journey to the western edge of Houston?

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